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July 31, 2022

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Another week, another newsletter. Let’s get to it!

Around the Web

A great post from my old coworker Vaidehi Joshi.

Three strategies for building trust with your engineering teams | LeadDev
Three strategies for building trust with your engineering teams | LeadDev
Sowing the seeds of trust within your teams
leaddev.com
Introducing even more security enhancements to npm | The GitHub Blog
Introducing even more security enhancements to npm | The GitHub Blog
New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm.
github.blog
Move over JavaScript: Back-end languages are coming to the front-end · GitHub
Move over JavaScript: Back-end languages are coming to the front-end · GitHub
A new crop of tools is helping developers build web UI components on the backend—no JavaScript required!
github.com

Jhey is a legend. I’m always amazed at his talent and creativity. 🔥

✨ CSS Tip! (or Trick 🤔) ✨

Use the mask property to mask(hide) parts of an element

Use it to create a faux 3D content scroller 🤿

.track {
mask: radial-gradient(transparent 0 30%, black 30%)
50% 20vmin / 250% 100%,
}

👉 https://t.co/ESqAMykp1j via @CodePen pic.twitter.com/4aZUao2tqv

— jhey 🔨🐻✨ (@jh3yy) July 29, 2022

Fun Stuff

This is the technical term https://t.co/JARoxXdOqW pic.twitter.com/kSVEyQagSZ

— El Arroyo (@ElArroyo_ATX) April 25, 2022

Words of Wisdom for the Week

Being kind is so easy and can be the default state, instead people choose the hard path way too often.

— Vic 🌮 (@VicVijayakumar) July 28, 2022

VS Code Tip of the Week

VS Code Tip of the Week: The RapidAPI Client Extension - Just Some Dev
VS Code Tip of the Week: The RapidAPI Client Extension - Just Some Dev
This week’s tip is coming in a bit late. I had a bit of a busy week. There’s another contender for…
www.iamdeveloper.com

Shameless plugs

I’m still editing the video, but I had an amazing chat with Brian Douglas about contributiting to open source as well as the project he’s gone all in on, Open Sauced! The recording will be up on YouTube probably early next week. For now, here’s a teaser and a great clip about imposter syndrome.

Clip on Twitch from Brian Douglas
Clip on Twitch from Brian Douglas
Program scared
www.twitch.tv

This coming Wednesday, I’m hanging with Brittney Postma! She’ll be giving me a primer on Svelte!

Looking forward to hanging with @BrittneyPostma next week! She’ll be showing me how to get up and running with @sveltejs!

Come by and say hi next Wednesday, August 3rd at 5 pm UTC at https://t.co/IGCWhdTbZb!

schedule: https://t.co/I5QyjuIygi pic.twitter.com/EJd1v0uc5O

— Nick Taylor (@nickytonline) July 28, 2022

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